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Exploring the work of Barb Davidson

Exploring the work of Barb Davidson

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Exploring the work of Barb Davidson

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- You know your projects don't have to be long term ones. Shorter projects become a powerful starting point for more comprehensive work, allowing you to delve deeper, showing new and different sides to an issue or a theme. The more you shoot, the better you will get, but if you're not inspired you probably just won't shoot all that much. You need to find the inspiration, then let your passion for the project motivate you to work and improve. If you're having trouble deciding on a personal project, think about taking on a smaller one to start. A short term photo essay can be a visual profile of an idea, a person, event, a business, it can be kind of a day in the life of an artisan, a musician, community leader, it could even morph into a portrait series of a certain group of people. It can be still lives, landscapes, or other groups of images with a common thread that ties them together. Keep it simple, less is more, it can be presented chronologically, or thematically, but the images…

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